Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — IN BAD CONDITION. [ARTICLE]

IN BAD CONDITION.

Is the Smith Cemetery In Barkley Tp., Says Uncle John Casey. Uncle John Casey of Fair Oaks was visiting in Barkley tp. the first of the week and inspected the Smith cemetery. He found it in a very bad condition, he says. The brush, grass, weeds, sassafras and wild grape vines, with the old undergrowth of grass, makes its condition disgraceful. Many wealthy families have relatives buried there, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, daughters and wives. There seems to be a lack of interest to clean it up and keep the cemetery in good condition. Ground hogs are devastating graves, they are numerous in that locality, too. Arrangements should made to clean up this cemetery and build a tight woven-wire fence about it as soon as possible, in ordei to protect the graves from utter c’est’uction by ground hogs, Mr. Casey says.